Dianne

I'd like to meet:

Former President Bill Clinton ; Democratic Senior Senator from Vermont Patrick Leahy ; Brenda Lee ; Patti LaBelle .

Too Late To Meet: Poet Laureate and 4-time Pulitzer Prize winning poet, Robert Frost ; former Texas Governor Ann Richards who died of cancer on 9/13/06; Gene Pitney who died in his hotel room in Wales of heart failure after a performance. I did get to see him perform in Burlington VT in 1966, but never did get to meet him. Bummer.

Centuries Too Late To Meet: sculptor/architect/painter Gian Lorenzo Bernini ; painter/engraver/poet William Blake ; painter/sculptor/inventor/engineer/mathematician, the ultimate artist Leonardo da Vinci , who also studied, and made astonishingly accurate drawings of, and observations about, astronomy, mathematics, aviation, engineering (hydraulic, nautical, military & mechanical), anatomy, biology, zoology, botany, geology, geography, and paleontology. Forget The da Vinci Code. The real Leonardo was much more interesting than that pap.
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Music:

Hacienda Brothers' Chris Gaffney and Dave Alvin sing "Fourth of July" at The Continental Club 12/08/2007

Jon Dee Graham , The Resentments , Sons of Hercules , Fred Eaglesmith , Patti LaBelle , Buffy Sainte-Marie , Wayne Hancock , Tarbox Ramblers , Jimi Hendrix , The Kinks , Southside Johnny and The Asbury Jukes , Ryan Shaw , Betty LaVette , Josh Ritter , Tony Joe White , The Paybacks , Terry Reid , Chris Thomas (King) , Robbie Robertson , Mary Wells, Wanda Jackson, Garland Jeffreys, Dale Watson, Gnarls Barkley, Gene Pitney, Love, Kacy Crowley, David Allan Coe, Milton Mapes, Thin Lizzy, The Stanley Brothers, Del Shannon, Big Smith, Geno Delafose, Poco, The Walker Brothers, The Reverend Gary Davis, The LeRoi Brothers, The Dells, Southern Culture On The Skids, Elmore James, The Eagles, Split Lip Rayfield, 1986, Sergey Rachmaninov, Toni Braxton, The Sonics, The Weary Boys, Koko Taylor, James Brown, Troy Campbell, Redd Volkaert, Brenda Lee, Willie Dixon, Tito and Tarantula, John Lee Hooker, AC/DC, Gary Clark Jr., Clumsy Lovers, Laura Nyro, Tailgators, Barbara Lynn, Red Stick Ramblers, Alejandro Escovedo, Big Balls, Loose Diamonds, Sly and The Family Stone, Li'l Cap'n Travis, Cee-Lo Green, Hackensaw Boys, The Blazers, Leon Redbone, Honky, Hound Dog Taylor, The Stooges, Dave Alvin, Scott H. Biram, Ryan Bingham, Junior Brown, Marti Brom, DeWayn Brothers, Los Lobos, Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band, Black Joe Lewis & The Honey Bears, Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky. And then there's the single most important style of music in my life - Soul music. Especially: Philly Soul (The Delfonics, The Stylistics, Harold Melvin and The Bluenotes, The Intruders, Barbara Lynn, Eddie Holman, Barbara Mason), Chicago Soul (The Dells, Chi-Lites, Gene Chandler, The Impressions, Tyrone Davis, Jackie Wilson, Curtis Mayfield, Fontella Bass), Motown Soul (Gladys Knight and The Pips, Smokey Robinson and The Miracles, Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, The Temptations, The Four Tops, The Jackson 5, The Contours, David Ruffin, Jimmy Ruffin, Junior Walker, Eddie Kendricks), The Brill Building Soul/Pop (The Drifters, The Coasters, Ben E. King, Dionne Warwick, Little Eva, The Righteous Brothers, Jackie DeShannon, Leslie Gore, Ellie Greenwich), and finally my most beloved '60s girl groups (Patti and The BlueBells [absolutely anything with Patti LaBelle], The Shirelles [anything with Shirley Owens Allston-Reeves], The Ronettes [anything with Ronnie Spector], The Crystals [Barbara Alston/anything with Darlene Love], The Shangri-Las [anything with Mary Weiss],The Chiffons [Judy Craig], The Marvelettes [Gladys Horton], Martha and The Vandellas [Martha Reeves], The Orlons, The Dixie Cups, The Angels, The Toys, The Cookies, The Essex, Diane Renay, Reparata and The Delrons, Patty and The Emblems, Ruby and The Romantics, The Jelly Beans, Rosie and The Originals, Kathy Young, Marcie Blane, and on and on and on.....)
My favorite instrumentalists in no particular order, except *#1*:
PIANO/ORGAN: *Sergei Rachmaninoff*, George Shearing, Van Cliburn, Laura Nyro, Vladimir Horowitz, Elton John, Robert Shaw, Alicia Keys, Roosevelt "Grey Ghost" Williams, Fats Domino, Erbie Bowser, Ray Charles, Enya, Henry Gray, Booker T. Jones, Mike Flanigin
GUITAR: *Redd Volkaert*, Jimi Hendrix, Carlos Santana, Robin Trower, Bill Frisell, Hound Dog Taylor [who was known to say, "When I die, they'll say, 'He couldn't play shit, but he sure made it sound good!'"], Gary Clark Jr., Jon Dee Graham, Casper Rawls, Mary Cutrufello, Dave Alvin, Derek O'Brien, Bill Kirchen, Landis Armstrong, Robert Johnson
LAP/PEDAL STEEL: Pete Drake, *Cindy Cashdollar*, Jon Dee Graham, Jim Murphy, Sweet Gary Newcomb, Robert Randolph
GUIT-STEEL: *Junior Brown* (go figure)
BASS: Kevin Smith, Brad Fordham, *Bruce Hughes*, Andrew Duplantis, Harmoni Kelly, Mark Andes, Chris Maresh
DRUMS: Damien Llanes, Lisa Pankratz, Kory Cook, Jason White, Max Weinberg, *JJ Johnson*, Kenny Aronoff, Steve Jones, Charlie Watts, Brannen Temple
SONGWRITER: Jon Dee Graham, Josh Ritter, Garland Jeffreys, Kacy Crowley, *Fred Eaglesmith*, Alejandro Escovedo, Bill Carter & Ruth Ellsworth, Reverend Gary Davis
VOCALIST(S) - I can't pick just one!: *Josh Ritter*, *Patti LaBelle*, *Gene Pitney*, *Brenda Lee*, *Betty LaVette*, *Garland Jeffreys*, *Mary Wells*, *Toni Braxton*, *Ronnie Spector*, Koko Taylor, Willie Dixon, Redd Volkaert, Gary Claxton, Gary Clark Jr, Ryan Shaw, Terry Reid, Troy Campbell, Kathleen Edwards, Bessie Smith

Movies:

Little Big Man - Scenes From Little Big Man
.. , Harold and Maude - Harold and Maude Trailer 1
.. - Harold and Maude Trailer 2
.., most Johnny Depp films, all Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire films, Andersonville , The Color Purple , Shrek , Babe , It's A Wonderful Life , My Fair Lady , The Shawshank Redemption , Driving Miss Daisy , Guess Who's Coming To Dinner , To Kill A Mockingbird , The Sound of Music , A Dog of Flanders

Television:

Law and Order , Law and Order: Criminal Intent , Law and Order: Special Victims Unit , Law and Order: Crime and Punishment , CSI , CSI NY , CSI Miami , Crossing Jordan , Criminal Minds , Cold Case , Forensic Files , The First 48 , Cops , Body of Evidence , North Mission Road , Psychic Detectives , L.A. Forensics , The Investigators (are you seeing a theme here??!), Six Feet Under , Antiques Roadshow , Digging For The Truth , History's Mysteries , any shows about Champ the Lake Champlain sea monster, archeology, mummies and/or Egyptology.

Books:

In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others. ~Andre Maurois

Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee (Dee Brown), Andersonville (MacKinlay Kantor), To Kill A Mockingbird (Harper Lee), everything by Ann Rule and Kathy Reichs , Louis Untermeyer's The Golden Treasury of Poetry , Patricia Cornwell , Robert Frost , Carl Sandburg , Thomas Harris , Faye Kellerman , Jonathan Kellerman , Dorothy Parker , Ogden Nash , Edna St. Vincent Millay , Alfred Noyes from "The Highwayman" to "Daddy Fell Into The Pond", Edgar Allan Poe , Charles Bukowski , John O. Douglas, Alice Walker , William Blake , and more, and more.... always more.

Heroes:

My mother Virginia Scott (who survived terminally diagnosed cancer twice and gave it a hell of a good fight the third time.
My grandmother Edna Carver O'Connor (she was the hardest working, most independent woman I've ever known and she loved to laugh!
Young@Heart Chorus
Claudine Helmuth
David Fricke
Oprah ,
Maya Angelou
Robert Frost
Harper Lee
Gian Lorenzo Bernini (especially Ecstasy Of Saint Teresa )
Leonardo da Vinci
FDNY Chaplain Mychal Judge who was killed on 9/11 by falling debris in the World Trade Center while anointing a dying fireman.